Free Squishy
Free Squishy is a 1993 American family cephalopod film about an orphaned boy who befriends a captive octopus at a secret military research facility until a dark secret reveals the CIA's plan to use Squishy as a genetically engineered assassin.
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How Stella Got Her Free Willy Back is a 1998 erotic marine coming-of-age comedy film starring Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Dr. Quadruped: The Battle for Hoth is a science fiction thriller film about a brilliant inventor (Otto Octavius) who becomes dangerously obsessed with four-legged creatures after failing to construct a mechanical octopus.
My Orca is a 1993 American cetology film about a boy who forms a life-long bond with an orca whale.
Tentacle Date is a cephalopod-themed dating board game for young adults.
The Johnny Carcinization Show is an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC featuring examples of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form.
The Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus. The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.
Fiction cross-reference
- The Johnny Carcinization Show
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- How Stella Got Her Free Willy Back
- Johnny Mnemonic 4: The Voyage Home
- My Orca
- Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp
- Tentacle Date
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Free Willy @ Wikipedia
- Free Willy (1993) Official Trailer @ YouTube
- Wild Octopus Is Always Excited To See His Human Best Friend | The Dodo Wild Hearts @ YouTube
- Releasing a stranded octopus and it thanked me @ YouTube
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